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Culture

IOSH 2018 conference blog: Day 2

Leadership

IOSH 2018 conference blog: Day 1

Safe systems of work

Unite’s Hinkley Point deal commits members to work on after a fatality

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Road safety

£1.5m fine for Tuffnells Parcels after trailer rollaway death

Parcel delivery firm Tuffnells Parcels Express has been fined over the death of one of its drivers who sustained fatal crush injuries when he became trapped between a lorry tractor and a trailer in West Midlands.

Work at height

Structural steelwork co in the frame for £150k fine over roofer’s spinal injury

A company that fabricates steel-framed buildings must pay £150,000 after a worker fell through roof sheeting and fractured his spine.

Employee involvement

Waste industry SIG launches ‘personal’ campaign to improve sector’s safety record

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has launched a year-long campaign to improve the waste and recycling sector’s poor safety record.

Features

Fire

Fire risk assessment

Plant protection

Lone workers

Gas detection

Lone worker Special: The detection connection

Lone workers

Alarms and comms

Lone worker Special: Going equipped

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Lone workers

Training

Lone worker Special: Field studies

With more people working alone than ever, training has to keep pace if staff are to manage new and more complex risk.

Lone workers

Mental health and wellbeing

Lone worker Special: Lone but not alone

Reduced contact with remote and lone workers makes supporting their wellbeing and spotting early symptoms of mental health problems harder.

Skills

Task analysis

Taken to task

Before risk assessing a piece of work you have to define its scope. We look at how to do that while avoiding ‘analysis paralysis’.

Columns

Craig Foyle

On

how getting involved in your professional body can bring career benefits

Andrew Sharman CFIOSH

On

The One Minute Manager’s three tips to get the best from employees

Products and services

Skills

RRC at Health & Safety North

Personal protective equipment

PPE regulation seminar at SATRA, 10th October, Northamptonshire

Castor wheel cover, front right cutaway.

Inventor seeks global manufacturer to license castor wheel cover

Products and services continued

Skills

Achieve the ‘Gold Standard’ in health and safety

What’s next for your health and safety career? Have you got the edge to be a leader in your field and get that senior position in health and safety management? Get one step closer with the NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety.

Emergency planning

Evac+Chair International: People-centred evacuation plans must be a priority

“Every September, we remember those who lost their lives in the World Trade Center almost 20 years ago. Evac+Chairs played a role in saving occupants of the World Trade Center on 9/11 and one of the chairs is featured in the memorial museum at Ground Zero,” explains Ian Thompson, of Evac+Chair International.

Management systems

International aerospace pioneer to implement enterprise-wide deployment of Cority’s integrated SaaS solution

Cority proudly announcesit has been awarded the contract to provide its award-winning, integrated Environmental, Health, and Safety platform to Airbus, a global pioneer in the aerospace industry, operating in the commercial aircraft, helicopters, defence and space sectors.